Khanate Reissue Capture & Release and Clean Hands Go Foul
After a 14-year hiatus, Khanate returned in 2023 with the release of To Be Cruel, followed by physical reissues of their first two albums (Khanate and Things Viral), and now, the band announces the forthcoming vinyl and CD reissues of Capture & Release and Clean Hands Go Foul via Sacred Bones Records on May 24. Pre-orders are available now for Capture & Release and Clean Hands Go Foul.
Additionally, Khanate has shared live footage of Capture & Release from their 2006 performance at the WIRE Adventure in Music Festival in Chicago. The performance was originally released as a limited-edition DVD with Clean Hands Go Foul.
Upon its arrival, Capture & Release (2005) was described as a doom metal opera. The two-track album is a grim tale of fixation, abduction and torture recited over 43 minutes. Lyrically, it might be Alan Dubin’s most upsettingly realistic Khanate narrative, an account of darkness and cruelty that few previous bands had explored. Musically, it is wave after wave of horror and despair.
Capture & Release Tracklist:
1.Capture
2. Release
The squalid room on the cover of Clean Hands Go Foul (originally released in 2009) may or may not be the setting for the unspeakable acts being committed on “In That Corner,” but the opening couplet of 33-minute closer “Every God Damn Thing” plainly speaks of declining stability and a looming demise: “Am I dying? I hope it’s soon.”
“Clean Hands Go Foul is an excellent example of the unusual methods Khanate employed throughout our existence,” James Plotkin says. “It’s a posthumous document of how we could embrace a complete change of direction and intent, solely for the excitement of experimentation. The fact that the entire album consists of unedited first takes as a fully realized work suggests that the band had developed an internal musical dialogue that even we weren’t fully aware of at the time.”
Clean Hands Go Foul Tracklist:
1. Wings From Spine
2. In That Corner
3. Clean My Heart
4. Every God Damn Thing
About Khanate:
Khanate is Alan Dubin (vocals), Stephen O’Malley (guitar), James Plotkin (bass) and Tim Wyskida (drums). Khanate’s fifth album, To Be Cruel arrived in May of 2023 via Sacred Bones Records, ending a 14-year hiatus for the band. The cramped corner of hell that Khanate takes the listener to, sonically and psychologically, is way beyond doom. It’s doom as a forgone conclusion…
